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Animation sharing with scaling?
Hey all, Hopefully a quick question.. Has anyone been able to share animations between 2 rigs with the same naming conventions, but with uniform, or nonuniform scale applied (for longer arms, etc.). We are using Maya, and theoretically seems like this should work. However once the character is exported and brought into the… -
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Thanks guys, yeah, I was a little rushed to post, so missed some info. We are basically using the NW4R Nintendo tools for Wii development. We're starting this project, and testing what can and can't be done, as well as how certain things work with exporting. I haven't used FBX too much, and am primarily a Max animator, so… -
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i think its just an "comunication" problem what maya export and infos the engine get. You can make a group in Maya with your joints, scale it up, visualy its bigger. That group is for example in my case is not respected by the exporter in any way, the animation will get the scaling it has without the group. I don´t say… -
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the easiest way, without having to do any scripting at all, is to lock all the translates on your joints, probably except for the hips, and then import the animation via fbx. it will ask if you want to keep attributes locked, and you say yup. this will essentially just give you rotations on your new rig, and keep the new… -
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I´ve scripted something from an Mel-Book together, basicly you define scaling in the script and the script bake the new scaling with new clean translation, rotation and scaling. Mostly i build my gamerigs without a global scaling, because in my case its wasted time. However came out gamedesigner to me and wanted some… -
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Is this a question in your engine or in Maya? If it is Maya, there are many solutions; if it is your toolset/engine, we'd need some more info to be of help (like how are you storing animations, skeletons, and models?). -
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i dunno der. sounds like it's an engine problem and not a maya problem. where are your models coming from? there may be a scale difference in the units. meaning max uses in. by defualt, and maya cm. I'd look around in your engine docs/forums whatever to see if there is a way to have the animation only apply rotations on… -
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Thanks for all the replies guys. Looks like we finally got things working here. And yeah grouping and scaling in maya seemed to work. Got a few things moved, scaled the joints, froze within the group, skin, then export. Things came in correct in the engine. Still more tests to try, but things seem to be working. -
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sounds like the same problems i ran before i made a script. However i just needed global scaling and not parts... -
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yeah. rob brings up a good point. in your engine, hopefully there is something like a checkbox or setting that says rotate only or such. unreal has such a checkbox and also a list where you can add joints that you want to keep translation on.
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